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Department of English Philology

 Fields of researchContacts
PROFESSORS
Prof. Dr Almantas Samalavičius Architectural History, Theory and Aesthetics
Urban Studies
History of Culture
Technological Society
Postcolonialism
Lithuanian Literature
Higher Education
Prof. Dr Jolanta Šinkūnienė Semantics
Pragmatics
Discourse analysis
Corpus linguistics
Contrastive analysis
Computational linguistics
Evidentiality
Epistemic modality
Media discourse
Cross-linguistic, cross-disciplinary and cross-generic studies of academic discourse, EAP, ESP Research publication and reviewing processes
Research evaluation
Effective scientific discourse
Academic identity
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Assoc. Prof. Dr Giedrė Balčytytė (chair of the department) English phonetics and phonology
English prosody
Didactic of English (as a foreign) language and alternative teaching models
Influence of music in learning English (as a foreign) language
The relationship between language and music
 
Assoc. Prof. Dr Davide Castiglione Stylistics
Poetics (esp. the notions of difficulty and imagery)
Empirical studies of literature 
20th  Century Anglo-American and Italian Poetry
Assoc. Prof. Dr Anna Ruskan Epistemic modality
Evidentiality
Academic discourse
Semantics
Pragmatics
Corpus linguistics
Assoc. Prof. Dr Rūta Šlapkauskaitė Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Literatures in English
Neo-Victorianism
Visual Materiality
Assoc. Prof. Dr Audronė Šolienė Contrastive linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Epistemic modality
Evidentiality
Translation
 
Assoc. Prof. Dr Justina Urbonaitė Cognitive linguistics
Metaphor research
Critical discourse analysis
Legal discourse
Translation
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Dr Linara Bartkuvienė Literatures in English (British and American)

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Dr Grant Rosson 19th-century American literature
Literatures of space, place, and travel
The history of geographic discourse
Historical poetry and poetics
 
Dr Leonard Stone Cultural studies  
JUNIOR ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Dokt. Kotryna Garanašvili  
PhD student Eimantė Liubertaitė British and American literature
Philosophy
Literary theory
PhD student Greta Maslauskienė Semantics
Corpus linguistics
Contrastive linguistics

Doctoral thesis: Lithuanian Spoken Academic Discourse: from Macro- to Micro- Analysis, supervisor Prof. Dr Jolanta Šinkūnienė

 
PhD student Deividas Zibalas Discourse analysis
LECTURERS
Rūta Burbaitė Translation theory and practice
Comparative literature
 
Jurga Kasteckienė Academic Writing
Academic discourse analysis
ESP (business English)
Jekaterina Šukalova    
Joseph Timothy Tobin    
PhD STUDENTS
Andrius Ledas    

 

Department of Italian Linguistics and Literature

 Fields of researchContacts
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Assoc. Prof. Dr Diego Ardoino (chair of the department)

Historical Sociolinguistics
Old Prussian
Multimodal and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of ancient (manuscript) texts
The notions od "root" and "identity" in Historical) Linguistics
Baltic Philology
Direct and indirect linguistic data on northeastern Europe in (historical) sources of (late) antiquity and medieval times
Dialectology and Geolinguistics
Ecdoctics

Assoc. Prof. Dr Dainius Būrė Literature of XIII-XVIII century Italy
Comparative studies of literature
Reception theory
Assoc. Prof. Dr Novella Di Nunzio Italian literature (XVII-XXI centuries)
Literary criticism
Theory of literature
Comparative and translation studies
RESEARCHERS
Dr Šarūnas Šavėla Music of Antiquity
Ancient philosophy
Philosophy of music
Stoicism
 
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Dr Ekaterina Smagina Italian Language and Literature
LECTURERS
Laura Bakšytė    
Danutė Butkienė    
Paola Fertoli Italian culture, art, cinema
Italian language
Matteo Notari  
Marta Savino  
Davide Trezzi Italian language
PhD STUDENTS
Julija Šabasevičiūtė  

 

Department of Classical Philology 

 Fields of researchContacts
PROFESSORS
Prof. Dr Habil Fatima Eloeva Greek Literature of the Middle Ages
Modern Greek Literature
Comparative Literature studies
Tipology of Literary standards
Prof. Dr Habil Eugenija Ulčinaitė, emerita Literature of Antiquity
Latin literature of Lithuania
Classical Rhetoric
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Assoc. Prof. Dr Vytautas Ališauskas Culture and history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Baltic mythology
Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy
Christian and Classical literature
Assoc. Prof. Dr Mantas Adomėnas Presocratic philosophy
Plato
Ancient political thought
Assoc. Prof. Dr Vilius Bartninkas (chair of the department) Ancient Philosophy
Ancient Political Thought
Ancient Cosmology
Greek Religion and Theology
Plato
 
Assoc. Prof. Dr Mintautas Čiurinskas Biographical genre
Biographistics reception in the literature of Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque
Biographistics of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Latin literature of Lithuania
Hagiographical researches
Assoc. Prof. Dr Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė Latin poetry from antiquity to the early modern period
Trends in post-classical literary development
Interaction between ancient and Christian sources
Neo-Latin Literature of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century in Grand Duchy of Lithuania: devotional, interconfessional, interdisciplinary, and intertextual aspects
Assoc. Prof. Dr Jovita Dikmonienė Literature of Antiquity
Classical dramaturgy and its reception
Assoc. Prof. Dr Nijolė Juchnevičienė Political history of Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek historiography and historiographical theoretical discourse (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, Lucian et all.)
Hellenistic literature and culture
Representation of women in Classical Greek literature
History of Classical scholarship in Soviet era
Assoc. Prof. Dr Audronė Kučinskienė  Ancient Rhetoric
Ciceroʼs Rhetorical Theory and Practice
Lithuanization of Ancient Names
History of Translations of Ancient Literature into Lithuanian
Ancient Culture and Art
Assoc. Prof. Dr Mindaugas Strockis Versification of Antiquity
Prosody of Classical languages
Lexicography of data bases
Assoc. Prof. Dr Tomas Veteikis Ancient Greek language and literature
Latin language and literature
Latin and Greek literature of Renaissance and Baroque
History of education
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Dr Alius Jaskelevičius Platonic philosophy
Reception of Platonic philosophy
History of Ancient Greece
History of Ancient Rome
Dr Ramunė Markevičiūtė    
Dr Gintė Medzvieckaitė Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music history
Paraphrases of Latin Biblical texts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry
Early modern cultural history
Methods of teaching Latin
Dr Tomas Riklius    
JUNIOR ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
PhD student Simonas Baliukonis  
PhD student Dovilė Čitavičiūtė Latin language
PhD student Mantas Tamošaitis    
LECTURERS
Dalia Andziulytė Greek poetry and philosophy of Archaic period
History of Classical art
Jūratė Baronienė Medical Latin and methodology of teaching specialised Latin language
Paulius Garbačiauskas Didactic poetry
Hellenistic poetry
Greek philosophy
Platonic studies
Renata Papšytė Latin language
Kristina Svarevičiūtė Methods and theory of teaching Modern Greek as foreign language
Literary relations of Byzatine Empire and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Poetry of XX century Greece
Irena Štikonaitė Methodology of teaching Latin language
PhD STUDENTS
Vasarė Butkutė  
Gražina Kelmelytė-Ratniece  
Skirmantas Knieža  
Elzbieta Reivytytė    
Gintarė Škėmaitė  

 

Department of French Philology

 Fields of researchContacts
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Prof. Dr. Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan (chair of the department) Motherhood Studies
Contemporary women's writing
French and francophone literature
Gender Studies
Migration and mobility
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Dr Ieva Balčiūnė  
Dr Antanas Keturakis Latin language 
Dr Vita Valiukienė Corpus linguistics
Contrastive Lithuanian and French language research 
JUNIOR ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
PhD student Ieva Šakelaitė  
PhD student Greta Štikelytė Memory studies
Holocaust (post)memory
Autobiographical literature
PhD student Jonė Šulcaitė-Brollo

Contemporary Women’s Writing
Contemporary French Literature
Comparative Literature and Culture Studies
Literary Criticism in the Context of the #MeToo Movement
Gender Studies

Doctoral thesis: ‘Reflection on sexual violence in contemporary Lithuanian, French and British women’s literature and culture’, supervisor – Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan (Vilnius University)

 
SENIOR LECTURERS
Dr Jūratė Navakauskienė Contemporary French literature
Lexical and textual semantics
Translation theory
Comparative typology of French and Lithuanian languages
Artistic translation
LECTURERS
Lauksvė Gulbinaitė The problem of language in the philosophy of imagination
Contemporary French language
Lina Perkauskytė French language grammar
Spoken French
Translation
Daiva Repeikaitė-Jarmalavičienė Linguodidactics
Laurence Sylvie Pascale Lucienne Tribodet-Paré French literature of the 20th century
Marielle Brigitte Vitureau  
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